Resurrecting Van Gogh with AI: Ethically Gray?
AI tech is cool, but there are definitely some ethical gray areas that make me uncomy—like programming an AI version of a real human to discuss his suicide and invent reasons behind it. Ick.
The backstory: Visitors to Paris's Musée D'Orsay can now chat with an AI version of Vincent Van Gogh about his paintings....but hundreds of people are asking the A.I. Van Gogh about his death by suicide.
The algorithm is constantly refining its answers, depending on how the question is phrased. AI developers are constantly tweaking responses, ranging from responses designed to give hope to those revealing Van Gogh's (alleged) darkest feelings at that moment (which we obviously don't know...)
Is there potential for this to be a powerful educational tool? Sure. But I do think we need to traverse this territory carefully and with respect for the real humans involved.